ID AND LOCATION
| Stanford #
| 250 |
| AG1980 #
| 250 |
| PM1960 #
| 250 |
| Slab #
| unknown |
| Adjoins
| none |
CONDITION
| Located
| false |
| Incised
| true |
| Surviving
| true |
| Subfragments
| 1 |
| Plaster Parts
| 0 |
| Back Surface
| smooth |
| Slab Edges
| 0 |
| Clamp Holes
| 0 |
| Tassello
| no |
TECHNICAL INFO
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| ANALYSIS
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| Description A row of tabernae, left, is separated from a structure on the right by a vertical street. Of the building on the right only the lower left corner can be seen. It seems to be fronted at the bottom by tabernae and perhaps a sidewalk arcade of which only the corner column is visible.
Identification Rows of tabernae like those depicted here are one of the most common features on the Marble Plan. Most often, the shops consisted of a single room with a wide opening towards the street that could be screened off at night, while the owners probably resided with their families on a wooden platform in the back of the shop. The luxury of having a covered sidewalk or portico in front of a row of shops like here was apparently not restricted to such grandiose areas as the slopes of the Palatine, facing the Circus Maximus (see fr. 8bde). Frs. 33abc, 34a, 34b and 34c depict a large, predominantly commercial area by the Tiber which abounds with rows of tabernae and arcades. The porticoes signify that there was a second storey or a mezzanine level above the shops, which would have provided the shop owners with additional living room (Reynolds 1996, p. 158).
Significance This fragment is a typical example of the type of combined commercial and residential structures that made up a large part of Rome's non-monumental cityscape. |
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| HISTORY OF FRAGMENT |
| Like the majority of FUR fragments, this piece was discovered in 1562 in a garden behind the Church of Saints Cosmas and Damian. From here, it was transferred to the Palazzo Farnese and stored there. The fragment was later used as building material in a 17th c. Farnese construction, the Secret Garden, and it was rediscovered in 1888 or 1898 when the walls of the garden near the Via Giulia were demolished. Since then, it has been stored with the other known FUR fragments in various places: The storerooms of the Commissione Archeologica (1888/1898-1903), the Antiquarium Comunale (1924-1939), the Capitoline Museums (1939-1955), the Palazzo Braschi (1955-1998), and since 1998 in the Museo della Civiltà Romana in EUR under the auspices of the Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali del Comune di Roma (This fragments history corresponds to Iter E as summarized in PM 1960, p. 56). N.B. PM 1960 does not reveal the whereabouts of the fragment between 1903 and 1924.
Text by Tina Najbjerg
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| KEYWORDS
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| tabernae, arcade |
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